According to Diagonal Reports, scientific skin care melds the cosmetic with the medical. It has helped democratize the beauty market, making types of products and treatments that had typically only been achievable for the elite, more affordable and widely available. These innovations blurred sales channel and product formats.

Additionally, Diagonal Reports acknowledges that natural skin care is a crucial part of the scientific skin care market. It finds the distinction between the natural and scientific is unwarranted, saying it is artificially imposed and does not reflect market actualities in any of the regions—the U.S., Europe and Asia—it has researched. The market researcher says scientific skin care draws on "alternative" (also known as “natural”) medical traditions from around the world to develop products and treatments.

This content is adapted from an article in GCI Magazine. The original version can be found here.